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How to use geranium in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective

Geranium means any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, of family Geraniaceae. Example: “I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.”

More sentences with geranium

  • I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.From the entry shore up
  • This time of year, Dan’s geraniums are visible to all passersby.1988, Milwaukee Magazine, volume 13. From the entry pelargonia
  • Markos was admiring some gerania that his mother had asked him to move into the sunshine to catch the warmth.2014, Victoria Hislop, The Sunrise, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry gerania
  • Gerania on the west, dividing Megaris and Corinthia.2004, Ronald P. Legon, “Megaris, Korinthia, Sikyonia”, in Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, editors, An Inventory of Archaic and…. From the entry mt.
  • Sometimes called cranesbills, geraniums make up a large and widely used genus, greatly loved by gardeners from England to the United States to Australia.2007, Holly Kerr Forsyth, The Constant Gardener, The Miegunyah Press, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry cranesbill
  • Annual geraniums and tobacco relatives like petunias, calibrachoas and nicotianas suffer most, but other flowers including osteospermums, mallows and chrysanthemums may also be attacked.2007 August 23, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times. From the entry calibrachoa
  • Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.a. 2002, John McGrath, John McGrath: Plays for England, University of Exeter Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry gerania
  • Carolina geranium seems quite harmless when it is young but becomes unsightly in flowerbeds when it suddenly reaches full size in late spring.1996 January 1, Barbara Pleasant, The Gardener's Weed Book: Earth-safe Controls, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry Carolina geranium
  • The Fynbos Vinegar, named for vegetation typical of the Cape region, is seasoned with honeybush tea, rose geranium, wild olive, grape must and buchu, a local bush.2009 September 9, Florence Fabricant, “2 Tasty Vinegars From South Africa”, in New York Times. From the entry honeybush
  • In the leaded window, high up, a row of pots of scarlet geraniums and blue larkspur gave the bright note of colour against the dull background of the oak.1905, Baroness Emmusca Orczy, chapter II, in The Scarlet Pimpernel, page 14. From the entry scarlet geranium
  • NOW that spring is near, I’ve been repotting dozens of houseplants —— begonias, aloes and oxalis —— and have started to make cuttings of others, like geraniums, aeoniums and kalanchoes.2008 February 21, Anne Raver, “Repotting for Spring, Mixing in Some Memories”, in New York Times. From the entry kalanchoe

Meaning of geranium

  1. noun Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, of family Geraniaceae.
  2. noun Any flowering plant of the genus Pelargonium, of family Geraniaceae.
  3. noun A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium (Pelargonium inquinans) .

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Questions about geranium in a sentence

How do you use geranium in a sentence?
Geranium is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “I shored up a geranium with earth after it had flopped over.”
What is a short sentence with geranium?
“Gerania on the west, dividing Megaris and Corinthia.”
What does geranium mean?
Geranium means any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, of family Geraniaceae.

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